Today's infographics come from The Economist, and they provide a fascinating visual comparison of Chinese provinces with countries. This chart below gives you a good idea of how each province stacks up globally in terms of GDP. Economic powerhouse Guangdong is approximately equivalent to an Indonesia, while Jiangsu and Shandong are both not too far behind, each with a GDP exceeding Switzerland's. Shanghai's GDP is a tad bigger than Finland's, and on the far west, Xinjiang's economy is as big as Libya's, and Tibet has a GDP the size of Malta's.
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Although it sounds like a particularly weird chapter of "Journey To The West", we are assured that this Pig with the face of a Monkey is a real animal. Born to freaked out farmers in the small town of Fengzhang, the freaky swine has shot to the top of the tourist attractions in Shanxi Province. more ›